#Perth court jails Ex-Docker for six months

FORMER Fremantle Dockers forward Shane Yarran could be released from prison as early as this week after he was sentenced to the minimum six months and one day behind bars over a high-speed chase.

The 28-year-old led officers on a chase after he was seen speeding through Gosnells in a Hyundai hatch just after midnight on May 24.

After reaching speeds of 125km/h in a 60km/h zone, Yarran abandoned the moving car and let it roll across four lanes of traffic.

He fled on foot and was found by a police dog lying under bushes in the front yard of a nearby house.

Yarran has been in prison since his arrest and was jailed in Perth Magistrate’s Court this morning for the mandatory minimum of six months and one day for reckless driving to escape pursuit.

With time already served, he will be eligible for parole later this week.

Yarran was handed a concurrent three-month jail term for failing to stop and was fined almost $5000 for a string of other charges, including driving without a licence, breaching bail and breaching a violence restraining order.

The court was told Yarran breached an order that was put in place to protect his partner in January when he stood on Spencer Road in Thornlie and told her to hand over his child.

Yarran, who had taken meth and prescription drugs, was acting erratically and repeatedly abused and swore at officers before he was taken to hospital.

The month before he was arrested over the chase, Yarran was photographed driving his mother’s car at 54km/h over the speed limit.

Chief Magistrate Steven Heath said Yarran was lucky to have the support of his partner, his family and the football community.

He said Yarran’s case was “all the more disappointing” because he turned his life around after he was jailed for six years in 2009 for burglary charges, but relapsed after his football career took off.

Source: Perth court jails Ex-Docker for six months | Perth Now